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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: From the Deserts They Come.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Bidgup and Meedo decide to do about the food problem?
(a) Take one of the white people's sheep.
(b) Kill all the white people.
(c) Take the white women hostage.
(d) Move the whole tribe away into the desert.

2. How did the first white invaders trick the Aboriginal men?
(a) They offered them poisoned food.
(b) They pretended to be gods.
(c) They offered to take them to an island, then left them there.
(d) They told them there was good land further down the coast.

3. Why did the first white invaders come in the first place?
(a) Capturing Aboriginals to sell as slaves.
(b) Looking for lost treasure.
(c) Trying to find a new home.
(d) Sealing and whaling.

4. What happens when Udja complains to a white magistrate that his wife has been stolen by a white man?
(a) He is given his wife back, but the white man is not punished.
(b) He is whipped.
(c) The white man is punished.
(d) He is given a bag of flour.

5. Why don't the Aboriginals understand what Captain Fremantle is saying?
(a) He is trying to talk in their language, but getting it wrong.
(b) He is speaking in his language.
(c) He is speaking in verse.
(d) He is talking about things they have never seen or heard of.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Mardudjara people feel about their work?

2. What strange occurrence shatters the peace of the camp?

3. What does Dora's father Lubin suggest?

4. Why did the Captain crash the ship?

5. What is the Mardudjara?

(see the answer key)

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